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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth
The Seashell on the Mountaintop A Story of Science Sainthood and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth
Author: Alan Cutler
Dubbed "the founder of modern geology" by Stephen Jay Gould, the 17th-century Danish scientist Nicolaus Steno was the first man to discover "deep time": to suggest that the existence of fossils, particularly those far away from where the animals of which they are the remains would have lived ("the seashell on the mountaintop") demanded a much lo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780434008575
ISBN-10: 0434008575
Pages: 228
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Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
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